Guide on Beating up Little Red Ridding Hooded Mercenary with ONLY Urban nightmare cards

A fairly simple guide to suppress Little Red Ridding Hooded Mercenary with card available to you when you unlock the battle.

Intro

Ever since the update(and buff) to the counter dice mechanism, the Little Red Ridding Hooded Mercenary (From Here will be referred to as LRRH) is becoming exponentially harder to suppress.
Here is a simple (not necessarily elegant and always winning, but it is simple to build and work 40% of the time) guide to the suppression of the LRRH mercenary.

Edit history: Edited in Sep 4th 2023 to insert images of deck construction and fix some vocab because the lexicon Heer (a subgroup of Grammar Nazis, there is another one called the Conjugation Luftwaffe, kudos if you got the joke) has taken over my mind regarding the "effective ness[sic]“ at the end of the guide.

The Diffculty & Solution

The main reason is because counter dice can clash up to an entire book page (instead of only once regardless of success) if the dice won the clashes; This however, means the effect of the dice will trigger as well. Good luck beating off the wolf with 5 stack of Strength because you are unlucky and your nugget (and the LRRH) have failed clashes with wolf's counter dice.

Solution? Weaken the wold as much as possible with status effect such as feeble(power -1), paralysis(dice upper bound -3), disarm(defense dice power -1) and fragile (dmg +1).

And thus the key card of the day: Forceful Gesture.


Emma's passive + Puppet Skeleton will give the Blunt dice on this a +3, which can change the game well enough.

P.S. While your emotion level is capped, there is nothing you can do about it. you'll just have to live with it.

The Deck & Core Page

As of the book, use Emma's page (from 8 o'clock circus) loaded with power and dmg boosting passive from the puppet, and if you want, optionally load up Tenma's passive that regens light if you have empty light.

As of the Deck, 2 Gigigig, 3 Puppet blockade, 1 Reporessed Flesh and 3 forceful gesture for all the librarian.
Now, if this set doesn't work, you can swap out Puppet Blockade with Smoking Pipe from Smiling Faces; however that somewhat defeat the purpose of this guide as this guide is meant to make you beat up LRRH when you first unlock the suppression battle.

Passive from puppet's page are a must (Blunt DP+1), and other ones are optional, i do recommend passive from Blemen musician or Brotherhood of Iron, or skim prescript/Battle Ready type effect that gives you more combat page at the start. "Buzz Buzz" from Alloc's page (from Gaze Office) may also be beneficial as they help you to win the crucial first strike of forceful gesture. Paralysis is a very powerful effect, if you can stack it go for it. Light regen passives from stray dog or Temma can be helpful in the case you can't play enough life regen


Here is an example of what I have loaded during my replays of LOR:


And this concludes the deck construction part of the Guide.

The Execution

Mullingan Guide
At Start:
What you should ideally see is a opening hand with at least 2~3 forceful gesture (in total), which is why i recommanded the addition of skim prescript/battle ready. You need at least 2 to inflict enough debuff if somehow the counters rolls unfavorably to you.

as of execution? Simple:)
Forceful gesture the wolf as much as possible, as that will cause the wold to lose the clash due to ♥♥♥♥♥♥ dice roll.

if you are short on light, just use other card to regen the light.

You can win most of the summation attack with this deck, even if you fail, somehow only the first dice will be destroyed so the effect will still pass through.

At quasi 80 HP left for the wolf, be careful of the damage. aim attack to LRRH if you want to block summation or regen light but do not want more damage to be done to the wolf.

the superiority of this deck is its simplicity and effectiveness. for a deck made this simple (and operate as such) the success rate is ok, and it does not take a lot of braincell to retry if you fail.

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thanks!!

[sirlancelot519]

Tysm for this easily fnished it with this guide.

[паучок13]

How easily he died, dude, you're a genius, thank you very much!

[TheCreepy]

You're a life saver I couldn't win with my star of the city deck but gesture build did the trick thank you again and again

[TMSC9000]

my build for that
2 puppet blocade
2 gigigig
3 gestures
1 represed flesh(you can t have more than 1 lol)
anything in middle

[Pokka]

Thanks. this helped a lot

[Legend27]

Fixed, improved readability & format.

[-W3E- HellDevil]

yea

[GamerRoman]

Hey just a suggestion but can you put the main stuff of this guide down to the description section please?